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It’s no surprise that Samsung is facing what appears to be its first lawsuit after its recall of the Galaxy Note 7. What is surprising is that the exploding phone in question is actually the (non-recalled) Galaxy S7 Edge—and that the harm to the plaintiff appears staggering.

On May 30, construction worker Daniel Ramirez was working at a site in Akron, Ohio, when he heard a strange noise coming from his pocket, which contained the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge he’d bought just two months earlier. “It was like a high-pitched whistling noise,” Ramirez’s attorney, Mike Morgan, said in an interview with Ars. “After that there was an explosion, like a loud bang.”